Improved cloth es-pincher



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@nire TTBS Arresti* trice@ `llvl PROVED CLOTH ES-Pl NCH EPL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. @2,95 E dated Muy 3l, 1864.

- .It consists ot' e piece of hard wood, oneineh.'

in thickness, two inches in width at the lower or vwidest end, and sloping from thatto one inch in width at the smaller end or handle,

and with the edges rounded and of sufcient length to be convenient-say three feet. This piece is marked A on the accompanying pho tograpln ln the edge of the lower or larger end of this stick A is a. groove about fourteen inches long, one inch deep, and three-eighths of an inch wide, end in this groove there is the wedgeB, about seven and a quarter inches long, andthe larger end wide enough for a handlesay one and three-quarter inch wideand thin enough to slide easily inthe groove of the handle A. This wedge B is kept in place by mean-s of e pinthrough the handle A, and wedge B.l In that part of the wedge which is in the groove there is a slot long enough to ellow the wedge to slide down far enough to hold in place the jaw U, hereinafter .described, as the pin passes through ln this groove is also a jaw, C, about'seven inches long and one inch wide in themiddle, und sloping nearly to :L point i et each end. One e'nd of this jaw rests on the wedge B and the other is even with the lower end of the handle A. This jaw is kept in place by a pin passing through theliandle A and the jaw G. NVhen' the wedge B is drawn up, as in Figure 2, the jaw is thrown up or open Vhy means of a small spring placed below the pin and in the groove under thc jaw. A square notch, about one inch in depth, is cut in the upper side ot' the lower end ofthe handle A, forming the innnovable part of thejaw. When the wedge B is slid down, as in Fig. l, the upper end ot' the jaw is raised, the wedge sliding under it, and the lower end is shut.

dew-months immovable jew.

The machine is operated thusi The wedge is drawn up and the jaw opens. 'lhe lower end with the open jaw is then pressed upon the hot clothes in thc boiler, and the wedge pushed down and the jaws closed, and thc clothes (one or more'picces at la time) re-moved to the tub or other receptacle, and the wedge pulled up and theclothcs dropped, end the operation repeated till ull are removed from the boiler. lt is designed to take the place of the broomstiek, which women have almost universally used for this purpose, and to avoid the necessity of their scaldin g their hands, as they are apt to do when using their unhandy broomsticks.

NVha-t I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The wedge sliding in the groove and the closing of the jaw vby means of the slid-ing wedge, and thereby grasping firmly in thc jews the clofehes in the boiler, and thus enabling` the washerwomento remove them `l'rom the boiler without difficulty or danger.

. y llllll ltY KIQ W LEY.

ln presence of- JOHN Merlini., E. W. HARRIS. 

